inside baseball

inside baseball is a critical ekphrastic chapbook examining the bad behavior of notable men in the arts. The chapbook was born from a prompt to write an ekphrastic poem in an MFA workshop—as a visual artist myself, I knew I wanted to use the space to comment on what happens outside the gallery. 

"In ‘inside baseball’, nat raum captures the metallic taste of bitten tongues—things marginalized artists know to be true about the mediocrity of high art that are ignored or silenced in reverence to the old guard. In no uncertain terms, they unpack the toxicity vital to the institution of fine art, rightfully reminding the reader of the ways in which the art world remains emotionally immature." —Madison Scillian, artist

inside baseball was originally published by back room poetry in 2023; it is now out of print